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scattered fragments of burnt bones, a few small amber rings, beads of the same, and of jet, with the point of a bronze dart. In the large barrow, No. 57, he found, in a cist, at the depth of 12 feet from the surface, the remainder, as he thought of the brass dart, and with it a curious whetstone, some ivory tweezers, and some decayed articles of bone. No. 66 is a low barrow, in which were fragments of a human skull, of a large sepulchral urn, and a drinking cup. No. 67 appeared to have been previously opened. No. 68 is what Sir R. Hoare calls a "pond barrow." No. 69 had been previously opened by Mr. Cunnington. No. 70 had an interment of burnt bones, deposited in an irregular cist. No. 71 produced the skeleton of a child, near the surface, and lower down, two rude sepulchral urns, the one above the other, each containing burnt bones. No. 72 had been opened by Mr. Cunnington, and produced a sepulchral No. 73 had, near the surface, a skeleton, with four wooden beads near its neck; and it appeared that another interment of burnt bones had been taken out. No. 74 produced a cinerarium, and ashes. in a cist. Nos. 75, 76, 77, 78, and 79 had been opened before, and appear to have been robbed of their contents. No. 80 is not sepulchral. In No. 81 was a large rude urn, containing an interment of burnt bones. No 82 had a cinerarium, and two simple interments of burnt bones, just under the surface. No. 83 contained a sepulchral urn, with a small bronze pin. To the south of No. 80, on the opposite hill, is a disc-barrow, not inserted in the plan, which produced a rude urn without an interment. No. 84, the largest barrow in this group, had been ploughed over. In making our section, we found pieces of stags' horns, pottery, and the remains of a skeleton and drinking cup and two knives; but the primary interment was a skeleton, with its legs gathered up, and hands placed under its head. No. 85 contained originally an interment of burnt bones, within a cist, but had been opened, No. 86 had also been opened; it had a circular cist and a cinerarium. No. 87 contained fragments of an urn and burnt bones, in a shallow circular cist. No. 88 produced, just under the turf, fragments of a rude urn and burnt bones, and lower down, a sepulchral urn reversed over a deposit of burnt bones. No. 89 had been in tillage; it contained a skeleton

in a cist, with its head towards the north. No. 90, in tillage, produced a large urn rudely ornamented, and inverted over a deposit of burnt bones. No. 91 contained an interment of burnt bones, deposited on the floor of the barrow and beneath it was a deep cist containg abundance of ashes and charred wood, intermixed with particles of bone. No. 92. On the floor of this barrow were found the remains of a skeleton, with fragments of a funeral urn, burnt bones, and some enormous pieces of stags' horns. Within a cist, excavated beneath the floor, lay a skeleton with its legs gathered up, and head placed towards the north. No. 93 had, near the top, an interment of burnt bones, in a rude broken urn, with a small cup; also the remains of a skeleton, charred wood, stags' horns, and flint apparently prepared for warlike purposes. The primary deposit was a skeleton, with its head placed towards the south-east, accompanied by a fine drinking cup, richly ornamented, and in the highest state of preservation. (Plate xviii.) No. 94 was not investigated. Nos. 95, 96, 97, 98, and 99 contained chiefly interments of burnt bones. No. 100 contained a simple interment of burnt bones within a circular cist. No. 101 a similar interment accompanied with two black rings of some bituminous substance, and one pully (?) bead. No. 102. An interment of burnt bones in a cist, with remnants of the cloth in which they had been enveloped. No. 103. A deep circular cist, with ashes. No. 104. A large flat circular barrow, had been previously opened, but yielded the bones of several skeletons, fragments of urns, and a rude instrument made from a stag's horn; there was also a large and deep cist. Nos. 105 and 106 had been opened by others. No. 107 produced a small interment of burnt bones, with a pin of bone at top, and under it a pile of ashes in a cist. No. 108. A "pond" barrow. Nos. 109, 110, and 111 had been investigated. No. 112 is a double barrow, rising towards the east, and somewhat resembling a long barrow, but ditched all round.

In nearly all the barrows described in Ancient Wilts, i., 123 (19), 125 (25), 125 (27), 168 (93), 211 (24), 238 (9), the burnt bones and associated skeletons, for med secondary interments, with primary interments of unburnt bodies below. But, though secondary, the later interments seem in every instance to have belonged to nearly the same epoch as the primary ones.

The lowest part had been opened, and contained an interment of burnt bones. In the other mound was an interment of burnt bones, secured by a linen cloth under a rude urn. No. 113, although previously examined, yielded fragments of an urn and skeleton. No. 114 contained a deposit of burnt bones and ashes, in a deep cist. No. 115 the same, but had been opened before. No 116 had been opened. No. 117 contained a small rude urn, with an interment of burnt bones. No. 118. A small long barrow, and produced a deposit of burnt bones and black ashes in a neat circular cist. No. 119 had an interment of burnt bones in a small cist. No. 120 is a "pond" barrow. No. 121 produced a rude urn reversed over a deposit of burnt bones. On the south side of Durrington Walls is an elevated mound, having the appearance of a barrow, No. 122, but, after digging to the depth of 11 feet, no sepulchral traces were found. No. 123, mutilated. No. 124, appearing like three barrows rising from one large base, but certainly a long barrow. It stands from south-west to north-east, and has its wide end towards the west. On the small end, and also on the centre, are mounds resembling two circular barrows Sir Richard opened that on the small end, ånd found only a few ashes and charred wood; but in the central mound we discovered, near the top, a skeleton and a drinking cup, both of which had been disturbed. On reaching the floor of the long barrow we found a circular cist like a little well, but it contained no interment. From this well-like cist, a tunnel, like a chimney, ascended nearly to the top. "I imagine that, as in most of our long barrows, the primary interment would be at the broad end. In this tumulus we have rather a singular instance of a circular barrow being raised upon a long barrow." Nos. 125, 126, and 127 being in tillage, were not opened. Nos. 128 and 129 had been previously opened, but the cist of the latter, containing an interment of burnt bones, with a lance-head of bronze,1 had escaped unnoticed. No. 130 had

"The bronze blades from the barrows are by Hoare variously described as those of daggers, spears, lances, and arrows. The great majority were probably daggers or knives for hunting, or for every day purposes. No other tumuli have been so productive in such implements as those of Wiltshire; nor have so many of such large proportions and beautiful workmanship been found in any other district." (Thurnam's Anc. Brit. Barrows, "Archæol.," xliii., 448.)

been partially opened, but some of the interments remained perfect, and were attended with some novel and singular circumstances. At the depth of about a foot and a half from the surface was a skeleton with a drinking cup, and lower down a deposit of burnt bones. On the east side of the barrow lay the skeletons of two infants, one with its head towards the east, the other towards the west, each placed over the head of a cow, which from fragments of the horns, appeared to have been of small size. We afterwards found a cist nearly four feet deep in the chalk, which contained the primary interment, viz., the skeleton of a man; but these relics had been disturbed, and some bronze articles, with which the bones were tinged, had been removed. No. 131 had been opened. No. 132. In a deep cist were found an unusually large quantity of burnt bones, two drinking cups, two incense cups, and two bronze pins. The quantity of bones and the duplicate articles led Sir R. Hoare to suppose that this mound had been raised over two persons. (Plate xxiv.) No. 133 is a very high barrow, but the plough had made very considerable encroachments round its base. It contained, within a deep cist, a pile of burnt bones, and a very beautiful and perfect grape cup (engraved in plate xxiv. of "Ancient Wilts"). Nos. 134, 135, 136, and 137 bore marks of prior openings. No. 138 had been opened. No. 139, a mean barrow, composed entirely of vegetable earth, produced, within a shallow cist, a pile of burnt bones, and with them two fine daggers of bronze, a long pin of the same metal in the form of a crutch, a whetstone, and a small pipe of bone, about 7 or 8 inches long, and more than a quarter of an inch in diameter at the small, and half an inch at the large end (plate xxiv); it is thin, and neatly polished, and has a perforation near the centre. Nos. 140, 141, 142, 143, previously explored by the neighbouring farmers. No. 144, a wide bowl-shaped barrow, composed entirely of vegetable earth, contained the remains of a skeleton within an oblong cist, with head towards the north and with a small lance-head of bronze. No. 145, previously explored, but in the cist was discovered a piece of ivory resembling the handle of a cup, and a large black pebble. No. 146 appears to have been the barrow opened by Dr. Stukeley, and marked B. in table ix., of his work. No. 147. One of these barrows,

enclosed within the same ditch, was opened by the Earl of Pembroke, in the year 1722, and is marked A. in table ix., of Stukeley, and described at page 44 of his "Stonehenge." He had found the deposit of a skeleton three feet under the surface, with its head placed in a northerly direction towards Stonehenge. Sir R. Hoare found the cist, which contained an interment of burnt bones, and with it two articles of ivory in high preservation. The one resembled a small lance-head, the other is like the handle of a cup. (See Hoare's Ancient Wilts, plate xxiv.) Dr. Stukeley had cleared a part of the floor of the small barrow, and left two half-pence covered with stones. Mr. Cunnington, however, continuing his researches, soon perceived the well-known line of chalk which led them to a cist at the east end of the barrow, and to an interment of burnt bones, with which were deposited four amber beads, two of jet with convoluted stripes, and a little broken cup. No. 148 was unproductive. No. 149 had been opened. In No. 150 the interment was missed. No. 151 is a small long barrow; and Nos. 152, 153 and 154 had been opened before. No. 155, a fine bell-shaped barrow, 92 feet in diameter, and 11 high. On the floor was found a large quantity of burned bones, and with them an earthen cup of a peculiar pattern, a cone of gold similar to that discovered in the golden barrow at Upton Lovel, five other articles of gold and several curious ornaments of amber. (See plate xxv., of Ancient Wilts, vol. i.) The cone of gold is ornamented at intervals with four circular indentations, which are all dotted with a pointed instrument in the same manner as the lines on British pottery. The base of the cone is covered with a plate, which is also ornamented with indented circular lines, and is made to overlap the lower edge of the cone to which it is fastened; it is perforated at bottom in two places for the purpose of suspension. The two circular trinkets are extremely beautiful, and in high preservation; they are composed of red amber set round with gold, and are also perforated for suspension. They resemble the articles found by Dr. Stukeley in a barrow, of which there is an engraving in his Tab. xxxii. "No barrow that we have yet opened has ever produced such a variety of singular and elegant articles, for except the cone of gold, all are novelties, both